Well it’s been a very busy 14 days for me, I’ve recently acquired a new work rig and in the process of converting my desktop to a local file server. The main goal for me acquiring this monstrous 19 incher is just so I can move around (mind you this mofo is huge, so my moving around is limited) my house and not just stay couped up in the study. A couple of important things happened when I got this laptop:
» Read more: Setting up Ubuntu on my new 19 inch LG S900-U.CPS1A Notebook/Work Rig!
This week, I’d like to talk about YeahConsole, an alternative to yakuake, or a more “native yakuake” for xubuntu and ubuntu. You could also look at it as a lighter terminal emulator wrapper for those who do not really like installing extra kde packages just to use yakuake.
» Read more: YeahConsole a lighter yakuake alternative for xubuntu linux
A valuable lesson I’ve learnt from a mishap late last year with one of my domains. It is a common “bonus offer” for many web hosting companies to provide a “free” domain name either for the first year or for the lifetime of your account with the hosting company. But what would happen if things go sour?
I use mybloglog to keep track of activity on my blog. This includes statistics on links that a user clicks on. The idea behind tracking this is pretty simple. A user clicks on a link or an ad which then gets recorded by mybloglog as an anonymous click same concept as google’s adsense tracking system.
You can execute linux commands within a php script – all you have to do is put the command line in backticks (`).
Recently, I had to upload an archive to a server which did not allow ssh. For files that I need to transfer, I just package them up in a neat archive and transfer the archive file via scp. Not having ssh access however, I uploaded the archive file via ftp and created a script which extracts the file the file looks like the following:
» Read more: Execute Linux commands in PHP by using backticks
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